According to Brent Blanchard, an implosion expert with the demolition consulting firm Protec Documentation Services, virtually every building in the world is unique. And for any given building, there are any number of ways a blasting crew might bring it down. Blanchard notes the demolition of the...
" the President declared, "we can, in a similar way, just take it from them without paying for it." In 1896 Africans had suffered huge casualties in an eighteen-month rebellion against British pioneers known as the chimurenga, or "liberation war." The ...
Powell insists that there was never a moment of foot-dragging. He was, he says, simply determined that if the United States intervened to restore Kuwaiti independence, it had to move with massive superiority. There would be no more Vietnams. It was an attitude ingrained in a generation of ...